Word: direful
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Roomy Overcoat. In the first few days of the new censorship, A.P.'s Brines estimated, the restrictions had cut his file from Korea by 25% and slowed up stories as much as an hour, but otherwise there hadn't been any dire consequences. I.N.S.'s Tokyo Chief Howard Handleman preferred letting the censors worry about security instead of following the old "honor" system, which made correspondents responsible for military security. Said he: "It's a lot better than being awakened at 4 some morning to learn that somebody has broken a story that we have been...
...internationalists" warned of the dire consequences of losing of and the "isolationists" of the dire consequences of trying to save allies. Nobody held out any happier hope than averting the worst. There seemed to be no architects of foreign policy around - just building inspectors...
...find these distinctions singularly absent. It's stimulating from a sanguinary point of view to note that we are considered fitting infantry-bait, and when we're called we'll all assume a suitably docile role; but the present lack of consistency, scholastic ranking-wise does deserve review. The dire need for armed manpower does not necessitate jettisoning that which we have been brought up to believe is a basic fact. A. T. Sawyer...
Alas, the geese were very fat, for many a princeling came seeking the hand of the Princess Saralinda, the winsome ward of the dastard Duke, and all of them met a dire fate-all, that is, except Prince Zorn of Zorna...
...clock and of wanting to make it run till June, he stages a double retreat from life into show business, filling out the play with colorful backstage detail, phonying it up with facile on-stage emotions. His talent is-flawing again, but from a faucet in dire need of a filter, 'it is depressing to find so much shoddy in a play that can here & there merge deep compassion with burning anger...